"Shall I not
inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between
one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots."

Muhammed (Sayings of Muhammed)

"Such subtle covenants shall
be made

Till peace itself is war in
masquerade."

Dryden

THERE IS A HEROISM THAT ACCRUES TO
THOSE WHO KNOW HOW TO STAND DOWN.

"Mankind will never see an end of
trouble until....lovers of Wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders
of power....become lovers of Wisdom."

-Plato

"Lies and lethargies police
the world

In its periods of peace. What pain
taught

Is soon forgotten; we celebrate

What ought to happen as if it were
done,

Are blinded by our boasts. Then
back they come,

The fears that we fear."

-W.H. Auden The
Age of Anxiety

"People who hope to push the fight
for the abolition of war to a successful conclusion must bring to their task the
same qualities which won the fight for the abolition of slavery: moral
conviction, patience, objectivity, and willingness to compromise. Those who
fought against slavery two hundred years ago made a historic compromise which
opened the way to their victory; they decided to concentrate their efforts upon
the prohibition of the slave trade and to leave the total abolition of slavery
to their successors in another generation. They saw that the slave trade was a
more glaring evil than slavery itself and more vulnerable to political attack.
They were able to mobilize against the slave trade a coalition of moral and
economic interests which could not at that time have been brought together in
the cause of total abolition. There is a lesson here for the peace movements of
total abolition. There is a lesson here for the peace movements of today. The
ultimate aim of peace movements is the total abolition of war. All war is evil,
but the use of nuclear weapons is a more glaring evil, and the abolition of
nuclear weapons is a more practical political objective than the abolition of
war. Modern pacifists, like the Quakers of the eighteenth century, would be well
advised to attack the more vulnerable evil first. After we have succeeded in
abolishing nuclear weapons, the abolition of war may become a feasible objective
for later generations, but from here it is out of sight. "

Freeman Dyson

-The Scientist As Rebel

-

"The outstanding feature of our
time is insecurity. Epochs of this character-witness the Reformation and the
French Revolution-have always been unfavorable to reason and tolerance; they
have therefore been epochs in which dictatorship has its opportunity. And men
always feel insecure when their privileges are challenged. They are not prepared
to accept the invasion of their wonted routines. They seek to make their private
claims universal rights; and those who provide them with the means of enforcing
their claims are regarded as their saviors. The limits of men's faith in a
reason which disturbs their established expectations are more narrow than they
care to admit. Yet such disturbance always comes in an age of economic
contraction. Whenever, historically, the economic forces of society cannot
contain themselves within the political forms-as, once more, in the Reformation
and the French Revolution-we have moved into an epoch of war and revolution."

-Harold J. Laski "The
Challenge of Our Times," Autumn 1939

"The world will never have lasting
peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less
than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic
faith."

-John Foster Dulles

The ONLY Way to Peace

"Picture a hall of
religions where all nations and races assemble together worshiping God in wisdom
and perception even as Jesus did. Behold, in the hall of salvation, Krishna,
Rama, Vyasa, Buddha, Christ, Zoroaster, Mohammed, Shankara, Chaitanya, Babaji,
Lahiri Mahassya, Sri Yukteswarji, Saint Francis, and liberated saints of all
religions, feeling God in the same way as unending, eternal, ever-new joy.

Behold the earth as a
big house, where the family of all nations recognizes God as the Father, and all
races as His children. Behold the world as a kingdom centrally heated by the
sun, lighted by the same moon, decorated by the same stars, sustained by the
same air and sunshine, the same food and water. Behold all human bodies
similarly sensitive to pain and gunshot wounds. Listen to the language of one
thought behind all human tongues; behold the same human peculiarities.

Now, seeing all the
above things, would you like to preach the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of all nations-a universal religion, universal method of contacting god,
universal auxiliary language, and inter-national understanding-or would you
prefer the doctrine of race hatred. Nordic supremacy complex, Aryan egotism,
dictatorships....industrial selfishness....concentration of all national wealth
on armaments...unbalanced division of wealth giving birth to national greed and
wars....isms of religion, dividing Protestants and Catholics though
they are followers of the same Christ? Modern war, which is so evil-so much more
unimaginably inhuman and cruel than all other past wars-and which is
super-advanced in the art of murder and tortured lingering death, has caused
many thousands of parentless children crying for food amid the rain of bombs and
choking gases and shrapnel stabbing shells..."

Paramahansa Yogananda

"Passive resistance is an all-sided
sword; it can be used anyhow; it blesses him who uses it and him against whom it
is used without drawing a drop of blood; it produces far-reaching results.
It never rusts and cannot be stolen. Competition between passive resisters does
not exhaust them. The sword of passive resistance does not require a scabbard
and one cannot be forcibly dispossessed of it."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"We have to study aggression and
posturing. It's like a magic trick, if you see somebody do a magic trick you've
wowed by it. If you understand how the trick is done, it's suddenly not so
potent. It's the same way with aggression. You've got to study it, you have to
experience it, and then when it actually happens it no longer astounds you. you
are able to deal with it calmly."

-Lt Colonel Dave Grossman

"If we are to build for lasting
peace, we must abandon the nineteenth-century conception that the road to peace
lies through a nicely poised balance of power. Again and again cold experience
has taught us that no peace dependent upon a balance of power lasts. If we would
build upon twentieth-century reality, we must throw the balance of power theory
out of the window."

-Francis B. Sayre

"Birth control, family planning and
population limitation are most important in any effort to bring real peace into
the world."

-margaret Sanger

"Peace is not a relationship of
Nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Lasting
peace can come only to peaceful people."

-Horace E. De Lisser

"Anything that encourages the
growth of emotional ties between men must operate against war."

-Sigmund Freud

"If (another) war is to be
prevented, there must be a clearly expressed willingness to go to war for
certain ends, but not for any others. These ends should be resistance to
aggression anywhere and against anyone, and as soon as possible this purpose
should receive its appropriate organization in an international government. Wars
will cease when, and only when, it becomes evident beyond reasonable doubt that
in any war the aggressor will be defeated."

-Bertrand Russell "The Future of
Pacifism," Winter 1943-44

"Were half the power that fills the
world with

terror,

Were half the wealth bestowed on
camps

and courts,

Given to redeem the human mind from
error

There were no need of arsenals or
forts."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We are frequently told that we
must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at
the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any
suffering. What Israel is doing today can not be condoned; and to invoke the
horrors of the past is to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not
only does Israel condemn a vast number of refugees to misery; not only are many
Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the
Arab nations, only recently emerging from colonial status, to continuing
impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development."

-Lord Bertrand Russell's
Last Reflections on the Middle East. As his final message Bertrand
Russell addressed the delegation at the International Conference of
Parliamentarians in the Middle East Crisis, meeting in Cairo on Feb 2, 1979....

"We look forward to the time when
the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the
blessings of peace."

-British Prime Minister William
Ewart Gladstone

"Peace is not the elimination of
the causes of war. Rather it is a mastery of great human forces and the creation
of an environment in which human aims may be pursued constructively."

-James H. Case, jr.

"True peace is not merely the
absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Make peace with yourself, and
heaven and earth will make peace with you. Endeavor to enter your own inner
cell, and you will see the heavens; because the one and the other are one and
the same, and when you enter one you see the two."

-St. Isaak of Syria

AN ETHICAL WAY TO END THE WAR IN
IRAQ

The New York Times ,Thursday,
May 17, 2007

Generosity Beats Domination as a
Strategy for Homeland Security

1. THE WAR IS WRONG; REPENTANCE IS
NECESSARY

The remedy for wrong-doing begins
not only with the act of changing the path (stop funding war) but also with
apology and repentance (in the Biblical sense repentance, conveys a return to
one's highest self after one has gone astray and betrayed one's highest values).
Therefore, we ask that our elected representatives go before the U.N. and
acknowledge that it was wrong for the U.S. to invade Iraq, that hundreds of
thousands of innocent people have been killed and wounded in the chain of events
that our invasion precipitated. The war has also created over two million
refugees. For the suffering and deaths that have come from this Invasion, we,
the American people, must ask forgiveness since we overwhelmingly supported this
great wrong when it began in 2003 and allowed it to continue. The scripture
declares:

If my people, which
are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and
turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and forgive their
sin, and will heal their land. (Chronicles 7:14 KJV)

It is not a sign of
weakness to confess wrong-doing. We believe that it is only the spiritually
strong who are able to do this. Such a confession will go far to restore the
stature of America as a truly moral nation. And in repenting on behalf of all
Americans, including those who are not religious. The president (or Congress)
should acknowledge that this entire society has mistakenly adhered to the
view that safety and security can be achieved through domination or control of
others, but that a better path to safety and security is to treat others with
generosity, kindness and genuine concern for their well being.

We urge the Congress
to pass a resolution rejecting the strategy of domination and embracing the
strategy of generosity, and calling upon the world's peoples to forgive our
society for the destructive path it has followed. It should then convey this
appeal for forgiveness on behalf of the American people to the peoples of the
world.......

"God help our
darkened and desecrated country and teach it to make its peace with the world
and with itself."

-Thomas Mann

"In this so-called civilized
world, children are physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused; they are the
leaders of our future. When children are raised in such a hostile and violent
environment, how can we hope for a harmonious future for all the people of this
world?"

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"What is Man, that he can give
so much for war, so little for peace?"

John Masters (British Officer and
author)

"Everywhere immense sums are
deployed for war; everywhere are vast arsenals of arms and provisions worth
thousands of millions of duros....If these enormous efforts were directed in
favor of the arts of peace, how much happier would mankind be! Ah! Now is the
time that underwater navigation and aerial navigation should arrive and equalize
the forces of nations and bring an end to war, enthroning democracy every-where.
If the insanity of war is real, how could universal peace not be possible!"

-Monturiol (inventor of the
submarine)

"Railroads and electric telegraphs
will harmonize language, weights, measures, and currency....They will destroy
ancient hatreds between nations and secure the supremacy of universal peace,
sweeping away class antagonism....They will give rise to the harmony needed
between the different classes within society."

-Cerda

"The telegraph binds together by a
vital cord all the nations of the earth....it is impossible that old prejudices
and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created
for an exchange of thought betweeen all the nations of the earth."

1858 The New Englander

"One wonders what a national
policy of giving food to the hungry, medical care to the ill, agricultural aid
and business capital to the poor would do in making for peace as compared to
exporting munitions and armaments to the small and larger countries"

-Jack Willcuts (Quaker)

"Our sages say: "Seek
peace in your own place, " You cannot find peace anywhere save in your own
self. In the psalm we read: "There is no peace in my bones because of my
sin." When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make
peace in the world."

Rabbi Bunam

"The problem basically is
theological and involves a spiritual recrudence, an improvement of human
character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science,
art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two
thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."

General Douglas MacArthur

"We seek peace, knowing that peace
is the climate of freedom."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Some people think it's a
miracle to walk on water. I think it is a miracle to walk on the earth in
peace."

-Thich Nhat Hahn

"The images of peace are
ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the
definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented again and
again.....In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A
community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment."

-Maxine Hong Kingston

The Fifth Book of Peace

"World peace means a peace of
bread, The first word in a war is spoken by the guns-but the last word has
always been spoken by bread...."

Herbert Hoover (May 1943)

"They have not wanted
"Peace" at all; they have wanted to be spared war-as though the
absence of war was the same thing as peace."

Dorothy Thompson

"With all my heart I believe
that the world's present system of sovereign nations can lead only to barbarism,
war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a
civilized peaceful community."

Albert Einstein

"Half a century ago, in July
1955, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein issued an extraordinary appeal to the
people of the world, asking them "to set aside" the strong feelings
they have about many issues and to consider themselves "only as members of
a biological species which has had a remarkable history, and whose disappearance
none of can desire." The choice facing the world is "stark and
dreadful and inescapable: shall we put an end to the human race; of shall
mankind renounce war?"

Noam Chomsky

Failed States: The Abuse of
Power and the Assault on Democracy

"All the powerful governments
of the world in the earnest hope that they may agree to allow their citizens to
survive. We are speaking not as members of this or that nation, continent or
creed, but as human beings, members of the species man, whose continued
existence is in doubt.....Shall we choose death, because we cannot forget our
quarrels? We appeal, as human beings , to human beings; Remember your humanity
and forget the rest."

Albert Einstein & Bertrand
Russell

"The future of both peace and
civilization depend upon understanding and cooperation among the political,
spiritual and intellectual leaders of the world's major civilizations."

-Huntington

The Clash of Civilizations and
the Remaking of the World Order

"As nations are torn apart and
restructured, as instabilities and threats of war erupt, we shall be called upon
to invent wholly new political forms or' containers' to bring a semblance of
order to the world-a world in which the nation-state has become, for many
purposes, a dangerous anachronism."

-Alvin Toffler

The Third Wave

"If another war is to be
prevented, there must be a clearly expressed willingness to go to war for
certain ends, but not for any others. These ends should be resistance to
aggression anywhere and against anyone, and as soon as possible this purpose
should receive its appropriate organization in an international government. Wars
will cease when, and only when, it becomes evident beyond reasonable doubt that
in any war the aggressor will be defeated."

-Bertrand Russell
"The Future of Pacifism," Winter 1943-4

"What we demand is nothing
peculiar to ourselves. It is that the world be made fit and safe to live in, and
particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our
own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of
justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and
selfish aggression. For our own part, we see very clearly that unless justice be
done to others it will not be done to us. The program of the world's peace,
therefore, is our program."

Woodrow Wilson

"Peace is indeed the absence
of war, but it is more than that. It is more than the temporary armed
tranquility of the status quo. Like good health, it is indefinable, appreciated
most when it is lost. But as the object of men’s hopes in every age, it
implies a trust in brotherhood, a chance to live creatively, free from want and
fear."

Carly Mydams & Shelley Mydans

The Violent Peace

"And is not peace, in the last
analysis, basically a matter of human rights-the right to live out our lives
without fear of devastation, the right to breathe air as nature provided it, the
right of future generations to a healthy existence."

John F. Kennedy

"Abolition of war is no longer an
ethical question to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and
ecclesiastics, but a hard core one for decision of the masses whose survival is
the issue. Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of
war can only be a dream…..that is the vague imaginings of a visionary. But we
must go on or we will go under! We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new
concepts. We must break out of the straitjacket of the past. We must have
sufficient imaginations and courage to translate the universal wish for
peace-which is rapidly become a universal necessity-into actuality."

Douglas MacArthur (General , USA)

"As man faces the truth and
begins to appreciate that all humanity, ney all creation, is one, the problem of
wars will commence to disappear."

Meher Baba

"The only alternative to war
and its suffering is seen to be to stop hating and to love, to stop wanting and
to give, to stop dominating and to serve."

Meher Baba

"I would have lots of fights
if I had another feller to fight ‘em for me. But since I got to do my own
fightin’, I try not to make trouble. Same with everybody. Make ‘em do their
own fightin’"—and you do away with fightin’."

Woody Guthrie

"Gurdjieff, when once asked if
wars could be stopped, said: Yes. But man must change himself so that certain
vibrations do not make him violent. Wars are not caused by Man. The sources are
extra-terrestrial-such as two planets crossing each other and causing a tension,
a certain vibration. Mechanical mankind translates this vibration into violent
emotions and so war results. If man became more conscious, he might, instead,
receive energy in the form of increased consciousness from these
vibrations."

Nicoll’s Commentaries (Vol
4p1238)

"There is no more suicidal
doctrine than what has prevailed in my lifetime the notion that no one has a
right to interfere with the internal affairs of another country….how small
would have been the cost in lives and property and every kind of cultural value,
if Mussolini had been nipped in the bud long before he played the part of the
ape that opened the cage for the tiger Hitler.:

Bernard Berenson

"Say no to peace if what

they mean by peace

is the quiet misery

of hunger

the frozen stillness

of fear

the silence of

broken spirits

the unborn hopes

of the oppressed

Tell them that peace

Is the shouting of

Children at play

The babble of tongues

Set free

The thunder of

Dancing feet

And a father’s voice
singing."

Brian Wren

"Well, this is what we must
overcome first of all. Our poisoned hearts must be cured. And the most difficult
battle to be won against the enemy in the future must be fought within
ourselves, with an exceptional effort that will transform our appetite for
hatred into a desire for justice."

Albert Camus

"It is not a man's duty, as a
matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most
enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it
is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if gives it no thought, not
to give practically his support."

-Henry David Thoreau

"If men understood each other,
they will become as it were one race, one people, one household, one School of
God….and then there will be universal Peace over the whole world, hatred and
the causes of hatred will be done away, and all dissension between men. For
there will be no grounds for dissenting when men have the same Truths clearly
presented to their eyes."

Jon Amos Comenius

The Way of Light (1668)

"World peace involves the
private renunciation of war on the part of the immense majority, but along with
this, it involves an unavowed readiness to submit to being the booty of others
who do not renounce it."

Oswald Spengler

"Peace through arms, Peace
through disarmament. Through strong defense. Condemnations, Economic sanctions.
Prayer. All the notions have been embraced and scorned."

Leonard A. Cole

Eleventh Plague

"Why should there
always be this internecine and implacable warfare between us?" said the
Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for.
They always bark whenever we approach you, and attack us before we have done any
harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be
treaties of peace and of reconciliation between us." The Sheep, poor silly
creatures! were easily beguiled, and dismissed the Dogs. The Wolves destroyed
the flock at their own pleasure."

Aesop

"The Wolves
thus addressed the Sheep-dogs: "Why should you, who are like us in so many
things, not be entirely of one mind with us, and live with us as brothers
should? We differ from you in one point only. We live in freedom, but you bow
down to, and slave for, men; who, in return for your services, flog you with
whips, and put collars on your necks. They make you also guard their sheep, and
while they eat the mutton throw only the bones to you. If you will be persuaded
by us, you will give us the sheep, and we will enjoy them in common, till we all
are surfeited." The Dogs listened favorably to these proposals, and
entering the den of the Wolves, they were set upon and torn to pieces."

Aesop

"The creation of an
authoritative all-powerful world order is the ultimate end towards which we must
strive. Unless some effective world super-government can be set up and brought
quickly into action, the prospects for peace and human progress are dark and
doubtful."

Winston Churchill

"The world is so
interdependent, much more interdependent than ever before. National peace,
national security and national progress depend primarily on international peace,
international security, and the development of international resources."

U Thant

"Peace is that state in which
fear of any kind is unknown. But Joy is a positive thing; in Joy….something
goes out from oneself to the universe, a warm, possessive effluence of love.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make
happiness."

Lord Tweedsmuir

"Almost all of us long for
peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts,
feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom."

Aldous Huxley

"You want peace. There is no one
who does not want peace. Yet there is something else in you that wants the
drama, wants the conflict. You may not be able to feel it at this moment. You
may have to wait for a situation or even just a thought that triggers a reaction
in you: someone accusing you of this or that, no acknowledging you, encroaching
on your territory, questioning the way you do things, an argument about
money....Can you then feel the enormous surge of force moving through you, the
fear, perhaps being masked by anger or hostility? Can you hear your own voice
becoming harsh or shrill, or louder and a few octaves lower? Can you be aware of
your mind racing to defend its position, justify, attack, blame? In other words,
can you awaken at that moment of unconsciousness? Can you feel that there is
something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to
survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the
victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is
something in you that would rather be right than at peace?"
-Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth

"It takes two to make
peace."

John F. Kennedy

"Until he extends the circle
of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer

"To the main road there is
only one hope: we must return to the main road from which we have wandered. We
must substitute for propaganda the power of understanding the truth that is
really true; for the patriotism current today, the noble kind of patriotism
which aims at ends that are worthy of the whole of mankind; for idolized
nationalisms, a humanity with a common civilization; for the condition into
which we have plunged, a restored faith in the civilized man; for the
preoccupation with the problems of living, a concern with the processes and
ideals of true civilizations; for a mentality stripped of all true spirituality,
a faith in the possibility of progress."

Albert Schweitzer

The grim fact is that we prepare
for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies."

Lester B. Pearson

"Five great enemies to peace inhabit
with us: viz. avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were
to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace."

Petrarch

Peace is not the normal state on
this planet-only 300 years of peace in recorded History.

Russia has been at war 46 of every
100 years.

England 56 of every 100 years and
Spain even more

Not 1 year of peace this century…(One
professor calculates 23 days of peace in the 20th century)

"A generation that hates war
will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace."

"Mr. Chairman, the Peace
Academy is an idea whose time has come at last. Personally, I believe that there
is a need for training the best and brightest Americans in the processes of
peace and conflict resolution. We take many of our most intelligent High School
graduates and send them to military academies to learn the art of waging war.
Why can’t we make it possible for them to learn how to wage peace? To those
who say we can’t afford to have an Academy of Peace—even a modest one as
proposed by the commission—I would respond that we can’t afford not to have
one. For if there is one thing that I know, is that wars are started in the
hearts and minds of men, and if we want to prevent future wars we can only do it
by promoting peace in the hearts and minds of men. I strongly urge the
Subcommittee to give favorable consideration to S.1889."

U.S. Senator Spark Matsunaga

(S 1889 is a bill to establish the
U.S. Academy of Peace. This idea has surfaced many times since the beginning of
our country. During the last 50 years, more than 140 bills have been introduced
in Congress calling for the establishment of such an agency ….We now have a
silly little organization calling it self the Academy of Peace….) aa

"How beautiful upon the
mountains,

How beautiful upon the downs,

How beautiful in the village
post-office

On the pavements of towns-

How beautiful in the huge print of
newspapers,

Beautiful while telegraph wires
hum,

While telephone bells wildly
jingle,

The news that peace has come-

That peace has come at last-

That all wars cease.

How beautiful upon the mountains
are the footsteps of the messengers of peace!"

Alice Duer Miller

The while Cliffs

"Non-violence is a powerful
and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"If five percent of the people
worked for peace, peace would prevail."

Albert Einstein

"Man must evolve for all human
conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The
foundation of such a method is love."

Martin Luther King Jr

"I have an implicit faith that
mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of
the Bible, as I have understood the bible."

Mahatma Gandhi

"The absolute pacifist is a
bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice, and
ideals."

Alfred North Whitehead

"In my humble opinion,
non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in
the past, non-co-operation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the
evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation
only multiples evil and that as evil can only be sustained by violence.
Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence.
Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation
with evil."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Between violence and cowardly
flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice."

Mahatma Gandhi

"The humanitarian and pacifist
idea will perhaps be excellent on the day when the man superior to all others
will have conquered and subjugated the world, in such a way that he becomes the
sole master of the earth, First then, battle; and afterwards, perhaps ,
pacifism."

Adolf Hitler

"Pacifism is simply
undisguised cowardice."

Adolf Hitler

"A pacifist is as surely a
traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Pacifism as a
political cause has suffered from the fact that its greatest leaders have been
men of genius. People of outstanding genius, transcending the beliefs and
loyalties of the tribe in which they happen to be born, tend naturally toward
pacifism. Unfortunately, people of genius do not usually make good politicians.
Gandhi was one of the rare exceptions. Genius and the art of political
compromise do not sit easily together. Except for Gandhi, the great historic
figures of pacifism have been prophets rather than politicians. Jesus in Judea,
Tolstoy in Russia, Einstein in Germany, each in turn has set for mankind a
higher standard than political movements can follow."

-Freeman Dyson

the Scientist As Rebel

"No pacifists or communists
are going to govern this country. If they try it there will be seven million men
like you rise up and strangle them. Pacifists? Hell, I’m a pacifist, but I
always have a club behind my back."

General Smedley Butler
USMC (NYT Aug
21,1931)

"I would like you (the
British) to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or
humanity, you will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they
want of the countries you call your possessions….If those gentlemen choose to
occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage
but, you will allow yourselves, man, woman and child to be slaughtered, but you
will refuse to owe allegiance to them."

Gandhi (open letter, Non-Violence
in Peace & War 1942)

"Non-violence is a flop. The
only bigger flop is violence."

Joan Baez

"Make yourself into a sheep,
and you’ll meet a wolf nearby."

Russian proverb

"Whosoever shall smite thee on
thy right cheek, turn him the other also."

Matthew New Testament

"The peace of the man who has
forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting
impotence."

Emerson

"One ought not to return
injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have
suffered from the."

Socrates in Plato’s Crito (4th
century B.C.)\

Elihu Burritt (1810-1879), one of
the most remarkable Americans of the nineteenth century. He founded the first
secular pacifist organization to rally workers and farmers to fight against war.
His League of Universal Brotherhood, created in 1847 during the Mexican War, was
also the first secular peace group to organize internationally.

Burritt, born in
poverty, the son of a cobbler, had an unquenchable thirst for learning and for
helping humanity. Denied schooling, he was apprenticed as a boy to the village
blacksmith and made smithing his lifelong trade. With no one's help he acquired
a working knowledge of some forty languages. If reaching out to other peoples is
a path to peace. none was better equipped for it than the many-tongued Burritt.
His great intelligence and strength of character enabled him to master many
fields of knowledge. While still a young man, he gave ardent support to a wide
range of humanitarian causes. He never stopped thinking of himself as an artisan
and devoted himself to whatever would benefit the working class. He continued to
work at the forge long after he had won fame as "the Learned
Black-smith."

Milton Meltzer

Ain't Gonna Study War No More

"Believing all war to be
inconsistent with the spirit of Christianity, and destructive to the best
interests of mankind. I do hereby pledge myself never to enlist or enter into
any army or navy, or to yield any voluntary support or sanction in the
preparation for or prosecution of any war, by whomsoever, for whatsoever
proposed, declared, or waged. And I do hereby associate myself with all persons,
of whatever country, condition, or color, who have signed, or shall hereafter
sign this pledge, in a "League of Universal Brotherhood"; whose object
shall be to employ all legitimate and moral means for the abolition of all war
and all spirit, and all the manifestation of war, through out the world; for the
abolition of all restrictions upon international correspondence and friendly
intercourse, and of whatever else tends to make enemies of nations, or prevents
their fusion into one peaceful brotherhood; for the abolition of all
institutions and customs which do not recognize the image of God and a human
brother in every man of whatever clime, color, or condition of humanity."

Elihuu Burritt, the "Learned
Blacksmith," pioneered many techniques-the peace pledge, mass
demonstrations, strikes-to rally people of America and abroad against any kind
of war.

Pacifists who refuse to investigate
the economic causes of war make common cause with gun sellers."

Ezra Pound

"Wars are usually inaugurated
by the upper and governing classes for the purpose of personal or national
ambition, preferment or pride, and the mutilation, torture and death of men from
the lower and laboring classes is less an object of consideration that the money
which is required for their equipment and support as soldiers"

Universal Peace Union founded
in 1866 by Alfred Love

That was then

"there is a small, highly organized
group of radicals....who are determined to destroy what they call "the system"

-Billy Graham after meeting with J.
Edgar Hoover during the Vietnam War

This is Now

THE DOVES OF YESTERYEAR FLY OFF TO
A DIFFERENT WAR….New York Times, Sun ,April 18,1999…."In the fall of
1968, Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, critical of the Vietnam War….Tony
Blair was also in the anti-war group….

"By the expenditure of all the
resources of the commonwealth in military preparations against each other, by
the devastations occasioned by war, and still more by the necessity of holding
themselves continually in readiness for it, the full development of the
capacities of mankind are undoubtedly retarded in their progress; but, on the
other hand, the very evils which thus arise, compel men to find out means
against them. A law of equilibrium is thus discovered for the regulation of the
really wholesome antagonisms of contiguous States as it springs up out of their
freedom; and a united power, giving emphasis to this law, is constituted,
whereby there is introduced a universal condition of public security among the
nations."

Book :The
Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk (Schweik) by Jaroslav Hasek *

"He is a
universal species-a good-natured, kind-hearted, naïve-but-cunning little man
who confounds confusion by following verbatim the letter of the law, reducing
bureaucrats, politicians and militarists to absurdity by taking them seriously.
He wants to do everything right and always does everything wrong, He is forever
in trouble but nothing perturbs his philosophical state of mine. Deep down in
his heart he knows he is a good citizen who really does the right thing though
others may not agree."

Josep Weshsberg

Prague the
Mystical City

"When a
soldier begins to think, he is no longer a soldier but a nuisance, a damned
civilian."

Schweik

"Everybody may
make a mistake, and the more he thinks about something, the more mistakes he
makes."

Schweik

(Schweik may even
be commanding a nuclear submarine nowadays)

"Humanity is
people like you and me. When you tell me it isn’t ready for peace, it means
that you yourself first of all are not ready to choose peace, because its
ways displease you. But in refusing to decide for peace, you vote totally for
it. Everything depends on each one of us . And we are at the point where it is
becoming difficult to conceal it. Our alibis no longer deceive anyone but
ourselves."

Denis de Rougemont

The Last Trump

"On that
future day when our satellite vessels are circling Earth; when men manning an
orbital station can view our planet against the star-studded blackness of
infinity as but a planet among planets; on that day, I say, fratricidal war will
be banished from the star on which we live….humanity will then be prepared to
enter the second phase of its long, hitherto only Tellurian history-the cosmic
age."

Werner Von Braun

"Peace is not
an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for
benevolence, confidence, justice."

Baruch Spinoza

"Let the
officers and directors of our armament factories, our gun builders and munitions
makers and shipbuilders all be conscripted-to get $30 a month, the same wage as
the lads in the trenches. Give capital thirty days to think it over and you will
learn by that time there will be no war. That will stop the racket-that, and
nothing else."

General Smedley
Butler USMC (1934)

(see WAR IS A
RACKET)

"Most people
think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or nothing much happening.
Yet if Peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being,
it will have to be the state of something good happening."

E.B. White

"Peace hath
higher tests of manhood/than battle ever knew."

John Greenleaf
Whittier

"The
Hero" (1853)

"My aunt once
said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and
asked for forgiveness."

Jack Kerouac

On the Road

"If there is
any peace it will come through being, not having."

Henry Miller

The Wisdom of
the Heart

"Peace demands
more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the
cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation."

Richard M. Nixon

"We want to
get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he
is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stand hectoring and blustering in
our way to achievement."

H.G. Wells

The Outline of
History

"As new ideas
do battle, like a play of forces, with the old for the minds of men and of
women, we need some new names to go with them. John Somerville has already
proposed ‘Omnicide’ (all-killing) as the label to succeed mere
genocide when applied to nuclear war. I suggest that its opposite, the love of
life, be called "amorvitae’ and that we rally to its banner, as we
in fact did in marching up Fifth Avenue now to Central Park. We are marching
into all the corridors of power on behalf of the powerless. We are marching for
our abused planet. We are marching through the synapses of your mind. Can you
hear us?"

‘All we are
saying is

Give Peace a
chance.

While we still have
that chance."

James George

"There always
comes a moment when people give up struggling and tearing each other apart,
willing at last to like each other for what they are. it's the kingdom of
heaven."

Albert Camus

"Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the
human mind. When you recognize it for what it is, you no longer misperceive it
as somebody's identity. Once you see the ego for what it is, it becomes
much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don't take it personally
anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing, or making wrong. Nobody is
wrong, It is the ego in someone, that's all. Compassion arises when you
recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more
acutely than others. You do not fuel the drama anymore that is part of all egoic
relationships. What is its fuel? Reactivity. The ego thrives on it."

-Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth

"Genuine Peace
must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic,
not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is
a process-a way of solving problems."

John F. Kennedy

"Since it has
become the fashion for everyone to present to the public a sure cure of world
war, we hereby offer our never-fail plan for ending wars of all kinds.

1. Put all of the
kings, presidents, and congressmen who advocate war, state and city officials
who are in favor of war, in the front ranks of the military forces. Along with
them, put all the editors who advocate war, and all the preachers who pray for
war.

2. If a referendum
on the question of war or peace be put before the people, draft for military
service all who vote for war, and exempt all who are opposed to war. Those who
want war should do their own.

3. Confiscate for
military use, all the property of those who vote for war, or engage in battle.

4. Pay no wages or
salaries to any soldier, sailor, or officer."

Queen Silver
(teenage radical in her Magazine QSM..Shortly before WWI)

"World peace
involves the private renunciation of war on the part of the immense majority,
but along with this, it involves and unavowed readiness to submit to being the
booty of others who do not renounce it. It begins with the state-destroying wish
for universal reconciliation, and it ends in nobody moving a finger so long as
misfortune touches only his neighbor."

Oswald Spengler

The Decline of
the West

Dialogue and Peace by Martin Buber

"Hearkening to
the human voice, where it speaks forth unfalsified, and replying to it, this
above all is what is needed today. The busy noise of the hour must no longer
drown out the Vox Humana, the essence of the human which has become a
voice. This voice must not only be listened to, it must be answered and led out
of lonely monologue into the awakening dialogue of the peoples. Peoples must
engage in talk with one another through their truly human men if the great peace
is to appear and the devastated life of the earth renew itself.

The
great peace is something essentially different from the absence of war.

There
is an early mural in the town hall of Siena in which the civic names are
assembled. Worthy and conscious of their worth, the women sit, except one in
their midst who towers above the est. This woman is marked not by dignity but
rather by composed majesty. Three letters announce her name: Pax. She represents
the great peace I have in mind. This peace does not signify that what men call
war no longer exists now that it holds sway-that means too little to enable one
to understand this serenity. Something new exists, now really exists, greater
and mightier than war. Human passions flow into war as the waters into the sea,
and war disposes of them as it likes. But these passions must enter into the
great peace as ore into the fire that melts and transforms it. Peoples will then
build with one another.

The
Sienese painter had glimpsed this majestic peace in his dream alone. He did not
acquire the vision from historical reality, for it has never appeared there.
What in history has been called peace has never, in fact, been aught other than
an anxious or an illusory blissful pause between wars. But the womanly genius of
the painter's dream is no mistress of interruptions but the queen of new and
greater deeds.

May
we, then, cherish the hope that the countenance which remained unknown to all
previous history will shine forth on our late generation, apparently sunk
irretrievably in disaster? Are we not accustomed to describe the world situation
in which we have lived since the end of the Second World War no longer even as
peace, but as the "cold" phase of a world war declared in permanence?
In a situation which no longer even seeks to preserve the appearance of peace,
is it not illusory enthusiasm to speak of a great peace, which has never
existed, being with reach?

It is
the depth of our crisis that allows us to hope for this. Ours is not the
historically familiar malady in the life of peoples which can eventuate in a
comfortable recovery. Primal forces are now being summoned to take an active
part in an unrepeatable decision between extinction and rebirth. War has not
produced this crisis; it is, rather, the crisis of man which has brought forth
the total war and the unreal peace which followed.

War
has always had an adversary who hardly ever comes forward as such but does his
work in the stillness. This adversary is speech, fulfilled speech, the speech of
genuine conversation in which men understand one another and come to a mutual
understanding. Already in primitive warfare fighting begins where men are no
longer able to discuss with one another the subjects under dispute or submit
them to mediation, but flee from speech with one another and in the
speechlessness of slaughter seek what they suppose to be a decision, a judgment
of God. War soon conquers speech and enslaves it in the service of its
battle-cries. But where speech, be it ever so shy, moves from camp to camp, war
is already called in question. Its cannons easily drown out the word: but when
the word has become entirely soundless, and on this side and on that soundlessly
bears into the hearts of men the intelligence that no human conflict can really
be resolved through killing, not even through mass killing, then the human word
has already begun to silence the cannonade.

But it
is just the relation of man to speech and to conversation that the crisis
characteristic of our age has in particular tended to shatter. The man in crisis
will no longer entrust his cause to conversation because its
presupposition-trust- is lacking. This is the reason why the cold war which
today goes by the name of peace has been able to overcome mankind. In every
earlier period of peace the living word passed between man and man, time after
time drawing the poison from the antagonism of interests and convictions so that
these antagonisms did not degenerate into the absurdity of "no
farther," into the madness of "men-wage-war". This living word of
human dialogue that from time to time makes its flights until the madness
smothers it, now seems to have become lifeless in the midst of the nonwar. The
debates between statesmen conveyed to us by their radio no longer have anything
in common with human conversation, the diplomats do not address one another but
the faceless public. Even the congresses and conferences which convene in the
name of mutual understanding lack the substance which alone can elevate the
deliberations to genuine talk: candor and directness in address and answer. What
is concentrated, then is only the universal condition in which men are no longer
willing or no longer able to speak directly to their fellows. They are not able
to speak directly because they no longer trust one another, and everybody knows
that the other no longer trusts him. If anyone in the hubbub of contradictory
talk happens to pause and take stock, he discovers that in his relations to others
hardly anything persists that deserves to be called trust.

And
yet this must be said again and again, it is just the depth of the crisis that empowers
us to hope. Let us dare to grasp the situation with that great realism that
surveys all the definable realities of public life, of which, indeed, public
life appears to be composed, but is also aware of what is most real of all,
albeit moving secretly in the depths-the latent healing and salvation the face
of impending ruin. The power of turning that radically changes the situation,
never reveals itself outside of crisis. This power begins to function when one,
gripped by despair, instead of allowing himself to be submerged, calls forth his
primal powers and accomplishes with them the turning of his very existence. It
happens in this way both in the life of the person and in that of the
race. In its depths the crisis demands naked decision, no mere fluctuations
between getting worse and getting better, but a decision between the
decomposition and the renewal of the tissue.

The
crisis of man which has become apparent in our day announces itself most clearly
as a crisis of trust, if we may employ, thus intensified, a concept of
economics. You ask, trust in whom? But the question already contains a
limitation not admissible here. It is simply trust that is increasingly lost to
men or our time. And the crisis of speech is bound up with loss of trust in the
closest possible fashion, for I can only speak to someone in the true sense of
the term if I expect him to accept my word as genuine. Therefore, the fact that
it is so difficult for present-day man to pray (note well: not to hold it to be
true that there is a God, but to address Him) and the fact that it is so
difficult for him to carry on a genuine talk with his fellowmen, are elements of
a single set of facts. This lack of trust in Being, this incapacity for
unreserved intercourse with the other, points to an innermost sickness of the
sense of existence. One symptom of this sickness, and the most acute of all, is
the one from which I have begun: that a genuine word cannot arise between the
camps.

Can
such an illness be healed? I believe it can be. And it is out of this, my
belief, that I speak to you. I have no proof for this belief. No belief can be
proved; otherwise it would not be what is is, a great venture. Instead of
offering proof, I appeal to that potential belief of each of my hearers which
enables him to believe.

I there be a cure,
where can the healing action start? Where must that existential turning begin
which the healing powers, the powers of salvation in the ground of the crisis,
await?

That
peoples can no longer carry on authentic dialogue with one another is not only
the most acute symptom of the pathology of our time, it is also that which most
urgently makes a demand of us. I believe, despite all, that the peoples in this
hour can enter into dialogue, into a genuine dialogue with one another. In a
genuine dialogue each of the partners, even when he stands in opposition to the
other, heeds, affirms, and confirms his opponent as an existing other. Only so
can conflict certainly not be eliminated from the world, but be humanly
arbitrated and led toward its overcoming.

To
the task of initiating this conversation those are inevitably called who
carry on today within each people the battle against the antihuman. Those who
build the great unknown front across mankind shall make it known by speaking
unreservedly with one another, not overlooking what divides them but determine
to bear this division in common.

In
opposition to them stands the element that profits from the divisions between
the peoples, the contra-human in men, the sub-human, the enemy of man's will to
become a true humanity.

The
name Satan means in Hebrew the hinderer. That is the correct designation for the
anti-human in individuals in in the human race. Let us not allow this Satanic
element in men to hinder us from realizing man! Let us release speech from its
ban! Let us dare, despite all to trust!"

Martin Buber(1952)

"....One
afternoon I retold the remarkable and still pertinent episode about Mentor, one
of my favorite characters from Greek mythology. As Homer rhapsodizes, when
Odysseus sailed for Troy he left behind his uncle, Mentor, to care for his baby
boy, Telemachus. Homer vividly describes how wise it was for a warrior to have
the presence of mind to leave behind a trusted teacher with his son so the boy
would have strong and soulful guidance until he returned from the wars. Ever
since, Mentor's name has signified the wisdom of elders. For it was he and the
goddess Athena who guided young Telemachus until the return of his father twenty
years later. Even Telemachus' name signals something profoundly symbolic about
the role of "mentoring," for its Greek roots, teleo-machia,
means "the end of fighting" . One of the universal functions of a
mentor is to take the war out of young men."

Phil Cousineau

Coincidence or
Destiny?

"It is now possible to defend pacifism by an appeal to biology which was
formerly thought to align itself with militarism. The theory that higher species
evolved in the course of evolution through a process of savage competition by
which the strong overcame and eliminated the weak has been superseded by the
view that co-operation plays a greater part than competition. Those species
which are most sensitive to the needs of others and are most adaptable to
changes in environment because of greater sensitivity to a wider range of
existence are most likely to survive. According to Whitehead, "Any physical
object which by its influence deteriorates its environment, commits suicide.
This is true among nations as among animal organisms. The militaristic empires
such as Assyria and Rome, where the old soldier was most admired, have had
comparatively short careers; the some-what more pacific cultures, such as those
of China and India, where the scholar or the holy man was most admired, have
continued since the dawn of civilization. The two recent world wars have shown
that those nations which are the least militaristic have the greatest power of
survival."

Howard H. Brinton

Friends for 350
years

"We might as
well have been throwing cream pies."

-Kurt Vonnegut,
estimating the net effect of the antiwar movement on the course of the Vietnam
War

"....Forgotten
is the paradoxical fact that the foremost Pashtun leader in the struggle against
British rule was a dedicated pacifist, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, once famous as the
"frontier Gandhi." His followers, nicknamed the Red Shirts, had first
to swear, "I shall never use violence. I shall not retaliate or take
revenge, and shall forgive anyone who indulges in oppression and excesses
against me." For upwards of two decades Ghaffar Khan and his Khudai
Khidmatgar ('Servants of God") fought alongside Mahatma Gandhi and the
Congress Party for a united, democratic and secular India. Nearly everybody who
has looked into this history has been fascinated, moved and astonished. Mukilika
Banerjee first heard of the Red Shirts in the 1990s while a graduate student in
New Delhi. Impressed and curious, she settled on the frontier, learned Pushto,
and managed to interview seventy surviving ex-Servants of God for her study, The
Pathan Unarmed. She found that Ghaffar Khan's pacifism derived from his
concept of Jihad, or holy war: "Nonviolent civil disobedience offered the
chance of martyrdom in its purest form, since putting one's life conspicuously
in one's enemy's hands was itself the key act, and death incurred in the process
was not a defeat or a strategy: rather the act of witness to an enemy's
injustice....In his recruiting speeches, therefore, (Ghaffar Khan) was offering
to each and every Pathan not the mere possibility of death, but rather the
opportunity of glorious sacrifice and martyrdom."

Karl E. Meyer

The Dust of
Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland

"....In The
Bacchae, Euripides posed a basic incompatibility between the warrior-king
Pentheus and Dionysus, who is described as a "lover of Peace." Arthur Evans, in
his book on Dionysus, argues that he is the antiwar god, citing among other
things the fourth-century BCE Greek philosopher Diodorus's praise of Dionysus
for founding festivals "everywhere" and "in general resolving the conflicts of
nations and states, and in place of domestic strife and war....laying the
grounds for concord and great peace. Dionysus could be violent, but not in a
warrior's way. At their first encounter, Pentheus taunts Dionysus for his
effeminacy: "Those long curls of yours show that you're no wrestler."

-Barbara Ehrenreich

Dancing in the
Streets: A History of Collective Joy

"We the peoples of
the United nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of
war which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind and to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the
human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and
small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the
obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be
maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in
larger freedom, and for these ends to practice tolerance and life together in
peace with one another as good neighbors and to unite our strength to maintain
international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles
and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the
common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the
economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our
efforts to accomplish our efforts to accomplish these aims. Accordingly our
respective governments do hereby establish an international organization to be
know as the United Nations."
San Francisco 1945

"International Law?
I better call my lawyer."

President George W.
Bush

"It is....essential
that as the classic direct strategies for preserving the integrity of nations,
the threat of attack or retaliation, lose their reality with the development of
weapons which can destroy civilizations, and as the older defensive strategies
have become totally out-moded by technical innovations, we should pay increasing
attention to the indirect strategies for preserving our societies from
domination or external rule. For it may be that in concepts like the non-violent
defense of countries lies the key to the preservation of society in a world
order that contains so many explosive new forms of power, physical,
psychological and economic, that firearms will become too dangerous to use."

-Alastair Buchan
(former Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies)

"The development of
ne political philosophies and new insights into individual and group psychology,
international systems of education, and the perfection of supra-national
organizations are essential elements in the pursuit of peace; but the safety of
mankind is too precariously balanced to allow us the luxury of long-term
thinking and planning with the need for urgent action. The political revolution
must begin soon if, as Pandit Nehru believed, the human spirit is to prevail
over the nuclear weapon. The first signs that the revolution has begun will be
the acceptance by the great powers of the risks-political and military-without
which the most modest steps in arms control and disarmament are impossible."

-Lord Chalfon
(Britain's Minister of State for Disarmament Encounter October 1966

"The
year 2007 marked Rumi's eight hundredth birthday and was declared "The Year of
Rumi" by international cultural organization. An apostle of love, Rumi taught an
Islam of the kind praised, also in 2007, by a special study of the RAND
Corporation, Building Moderate Muslim Networks. The RAND document
proposed a global alliance between the democracies and moderate Muslims,
comparable to the cold war effort by Western governments that supported
anti-Communist liberals and social democrats through central Asia to Southeast
Asia could encircle and challenge radical Islam based in the core of Arab
countries and Iran."

Stephen Schwartz

The Other Islam

"Does Sufism
represent a path to global harmony today? It would be unseemly to make
exaggerated claims for a metaphysical tradition that so persistently calls for
modesty in the life of believers. And given that this chronicle has included
many incidents of brutality against Sufis, it cannot be said the Sufi way is an
easy one. for readers accustomed to the transcendent image of the Sufi gardens,
lush with mystical pleasures, my account may seem dissonant and dismaying. The
image of Hallaj-a martyr for the freedom of imagination-should remain alive in
the heart of every Sufi. Currently, Sufism and moderate Islam in general appear
as if hanged on an executioner's gibbet, awaiting further torture and final
execution, scorned from all sides.
-Stephen Schwartz

The Other Islam

"Too many of us
think (that peace) is impossible. Too many think it is unreal. But that is a
dangerous, defeatist belief. it leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable,
that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need
not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by
man. and man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond
human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly
unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again. I am not referring to the
absolute, infinite concept of universal peace and goodwill of which some
fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value of hopes and dreams, but
we merely invite discouragement and incredulity by making that our only and
immediate goal.

Let us
focus instead on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden
revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions-on a
series of concrete actions and effective agreements which are in the interest of
all concerned. There is no single, simple key to this peace; no grand or magic
formula to be adopted by one or two powers. Genuine peace must be the product of
many nations, the sum of many acts. it must be dynamic, not static, changing to
meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of
solving problems."

-President John F.
Kennedy (speech at American University in June 1963)

"Monarchs ought to
put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as
dangers to their states."

-Elizabeth I Queen
of England

"If
the capacity for disobedience constituted the beginning of human history,
obedience might cause the end of human history. I am not speaking symbolically
or poetically."

Erich Fromm

Beyond the Chains
of Illusion

"In the tragic
situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in
conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the
development of weapons of mass destruction.....We are speaking on this occasion
not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings,
members of the species of man whose continued existence is still in doubt."

--Lord Bertrand
Russell-Einstein manifesto (Read to a news conference in London in July 1955

"With both sides of
this divided world in possession of unbelievably destructive weapons, mankind
approaches a state where mutual annihilation becomes a possibility. No other
fact of today's world equals this in importance. It colours everything we say,
plan or do."

-President
Eisenhower 1960 State of the Union message to Congress

"Social scientists
particularly have to deal with questions in situations in which any sensible
person would throw up his hands and go home. We can't afford to throw up our
hands and go home, because there isn't any place to go! We have to face up to
the problems of civil defense, we have to face up to the problems of arms
control and disarmament. We have to build weapons which are fearful to think
about while we negotiate with people whom we rally do not understand about
issues which involve the continuation of the world as we know it."

-Adam Yarnmolisnsky
(Robert McNamara's Special Assistant in the Defense Department

"O people. We
created you equal from the union of a pair, male and female, and We made your
races and tribes to GET TO BE ACQUAINTED and cooperate with each other."
Qur'an (49:13)
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Book: "The
Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History" by Phillip
Bobbitt

OPPOSING WAR CRIMES
COURT A DARK MOMENT FOR THE U.S by Holger Jensen….international editor of the
Rocky Mountain News….Denver,Co

Book: "The
Future of Peace" by Scott A. Hunt

Book: "Rising
Up and Rising Down" by William Vollmann (3,298 pp)

Book: "Between
Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and
Peacemaking" by Marc Gopin

Book: "Walking
In The Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century" by
Meredith Baldwin Weddle

Book:
"Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History" by Elise Boulding

Book: "Unarmed
Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War" by Matthew
Evangelista

Book:
"Speak Up for Just War or Pacifism" by Paul Ramsey

Book: " The
Giving and Taking of Life: Essay Ethical" by James Tunstead Burtchaell

Book: "Seeking
Peace" by Johann Cristoph Arnold

Book: "The Art
of Forgiveness, Loving kindness, and Peace" by Jack Kornfield

Book: "Hell,
Healing, and Resistance: Veterans Speak"

Book: "Unarmed
Forces: The Trans-National Movement to End the Cold War" by Matthew
Evangelista

Book: "The Better
Angels of Our Nature" by steven Pinker

Book: "The
Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States" by Robert
Cooney & Helen Michalowski

Book: "The
Long Loneliness" by Dorothy Day

Book: "The
Pacifist Conscience" by Peter Mayer

Book: "Toward
a Warless World: The Travail of the American Peace Movement, 1857-1914)